The Education of a Physicist

Title: The Education of a PhysicistAuthor(s): Sanbord C. Brown, Norman ClarkePublisher: John Wiley, New YorkISBN: , Pages: , Year:Search for book at Amazon.com

The thesis of "The Education of a Physicist" is clear: the education, prospects, and functions of the physicist and the physicist-become-engineer are of fundamental importance to man and the society he would build. This is a twentieth-century problem, peculiarly so; the physical scientist as Rabi has remarked is subject to "import and export regulations." Thus, defections of scientists to hostile countries (however statistically insignificant) are prime news. The "brain drain" whether to the advantage of a friendly country, or to industry, is also of prime concern as the various papers in this collection taken from the "Third International Conference on the Education of the Physicist" testify.
The book, an agreeable and comprehensive, although personal, insight into the presentations of scholars and industrialists from 25 countries, will be informative and useful to those who would improve the education of the physicist and engineer. The opinions expressed range from "the need to free... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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